MS Princeton University, Parrish Collection1
Dear Sir
The lines are certainly not mine – nor do I think I could ever have quoted them for I do not remember ever to have heard them2
Yours truly
C M Yonge
1Envelope addressed to J B [or R?] Scarlett Esq/ 24 Cramer Terrace/ Gateshead on Tyne, postmarked 87.
2CMY's correspondent, an accountant who is listed at this address in the 1891 census, used the same trick to get autographs from both Thomas Hardy and A. C. Swinburne: see Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, VII, 105 and The Swinburne Letters, V, 231.
2CMY's correspondent, an accountant who is listed at this address in the 1891 census, used the same trick to get autographs from both Thomas Hardy and A. C. Swinburne: see Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, VII, 105 and The Swinburne Letters, V, 231.
Cite this letter
The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge(1823-1901) edited by
Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske.
URL to this Letter is: https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/yonge/2865/to-j-b-scarlett
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